Jamie xx, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Ballet Debuts
Jamie xx joined Wayne McGregor and Olafur Eliasson on adapting a ballet rendition of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes, which opened its world tour this week in New York and…
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Ziggy Stardust Forever
In celebration of the iconic figure who transcends all generational gaps, photographer Mick Rock spoke with VICE about his time with Bowie when the artist was inventing the revolutionary alter ego that…
Albums of Our Lives: Guided by Voices’s Alien Lanes
For me, Bob Pollard became a messiah of the creative life, urging me forward for many years to come, in my new, somewhat shabby but inspired career.
Song of the Day: “In the Lost and Found”
Elliot Smith fits the definition of “tortured artist” pretty cleanly. His childhood in Texas and the divorce of his parents contributed to enduring problems with depression, addiction, and suicidal tendencies.…
Grace Jones Tells Everybody
We’ve been looking forward to Grace Jones’s memoir, I’ll Never Write My Memoirs, since it was confirmed early this year, and the quotes leaking on the Internet (via Dazed Digital, among others) haven’t…
This Week in Posivibes: Jessie Jones
Mid-’60s psychedelia and all its acid and white witches has been mined pretty intensely in the last decade or so, but Jessie Jones’s solo debut exists almost as if to say…
Hologram Madness
Last week the New York Times reported that Billie Holiday’s hologram is coming to the Apollo Theater this fall, where the singer made her debut at nineteen, and recently was inducted…
Swinging Modern Sounds #67: The Franchise Restaurants of Song
Musician Owen Ashworth on his new album, Nephew in the Wild, literary influences, self-expression in songwriting, and how becoming a father has changed his work.
The Case for Bieber
Following his emotional moment at the VMAs, there’s been a lot of vehement talk about whether Justin Bieber’s recent tour has been a turning point in his career, marking his birth…
Can’t Escape “Show Me Love”
If you’ve been thinking that there’s a subtly pervasive ’90s house vibe running through today’s music, you might have Sten “Stonebridge” Hallström to thank for it. The man behind the…
Song of the Day: “Jump Off The Roof”
One of the least talked-about and most heartfelt tracks off Vince Staples’s identify-defining album, Summertime ’06, dispenses with the bravado of his other lyrics. At the same time, “Jump Off…
Sound Takes: Psychic Reader
[Psychic Reader] is the perfect album for a road trip to somewhere you’ve always wanted to go, with someone who gives you butterflies riding shotgun.